"moving target" meaning in English

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      "form": "moving targets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, page 15",
          "text": "Who knows what to call transpeople these days? The dominant discourse in the transcommunity is at best a moving target. Transgender began its life as a name for those folks who identified neither as crossdressers nor as transexuals—primarily people who changed their gender but not their genitals.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "There’s palpable peril in the squadron’s ever-mounting bombing runs, and Cathcart’s moving target of a mission quota makes a clever parallel to contemporary America’s Forever War, but the flight sequences wind up acquiring a deadening repetitiousness",
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        "A goal that is constantly changing."
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          "goal",
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "liikkuva maali"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ruchomy cel"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "moving target"
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          "ref": "1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, page 15",
          "text": "Who knows what to call transpeople these days? The dominant discourse in the transcommunity is at best a moving target. Transgender began its life as a name for those folks who identified neither as crossdressers nor as transexuals—primarily people who changed their gender but not their genitals.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "There’s palpable peril in the squadron’s ever-mounting bombing runs, and Cathcart’s moving target of a mission quota makes a clever parallel to contemporary America’s Forever War, but the flight sequences wind up acquiring a deadening repetitiousness",
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        }
      ],
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        "A goal that is constantly changing."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "liikkuva maali"
    },
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      "lang": "Polish",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "ruchomy cel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moving target"
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